# 1965 in Canada

Events from the year 1965 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – Elizabeth II

### Federal government

* Governor General – Georges Vanier
* Prime Minister – Lester B. Pearson
* Chief Justice – Robert Taschereau (Quebec)
* Parliament – 26th (until September 8) then 27th (from December 9)

### Provincial governments
#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John Percy Page
* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – George Pearkes
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Errick Willis (until November 1) then Richard Spink Bowles
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Joseph Leonard O'Brien (until June 9) then John B. McNair
* Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Fabian O'Dea
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Henry Poole MacKeen
* Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Earl Rowe
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Willibald Joseph MacDonald
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Paul Comtois
* Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Robert Hanbidge

#### Premiers

* Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning
* Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett
* Premier of Manitoba – Dufferin Roblin
* Premier of New Brunswick – Louis Robichaud
* Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood
* Premier of Nova Scotia – Robert Stanfield
* Premier of Ontario – John Robarts
* Premier of Prince Edward Island – Walter Shaw
* Premier of Quebec – Jean Lesage
* Premier of Saskatchewan – Ross Thatcher

### Territorial governments
#### Commissioners

* Commissioner of Yukon – Gordon Robertson Cameron
* Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Bent Gestur Sivertz

## Events

* January 1 – Trans-Canada Airlines is renamed Air Canada.
* January 9 – The Hope Slide, the largest landslide ever recorded in Canada, kills four.
* January 16 – The Canada-United States Automotive Agreement is signed
* January 28 – The Queen issues a royal proclamation, effective February 15, making the Maple Leaf flag the National Flag of Canada.
* February 15 – Canada adopts the maple leaf for the national flag.
* March 2 – Lucien Rivard escapes from a Montreal area jail
* March 7 – Canadian Roman Catholic churches celebrate mass in the vernacular for the first time due to the reforms of Vatican II
* March 20 – Peter Lougheed is elected leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party
* April 2 – Lester Pearson gives a speech at Temple University in the United States that calls for a stop to the bombing of North Vietnam, infuriating President Lyndon Johnson
* May 16 – Cross Country Checkup debuts on radio
* June 7 – Navy, army, and air force commands are replaced by six functional commands
* July 8 – A crash of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 in British Columbia kills 52.
* September 9 – The Fowler Report is released. It advocates creation of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) Toronto City Hall opens
* September 13 - The new Toronto City Hall is opened.
* November 8 – Federal election: Lester Pearson's Liberals win a second consecutive minority
* November 9 – A failure at an Ontario power station causes the 1965 Blackout that stretches from Florida to Chicago and all of southern Ontario.
* November 29 – Alouette 2 is launched.

### Full date unknown

* Eligibility age for pensions is lowered from 70 to 65

## Arts and literature
### New books

* George Grant: Lament for a Nation
* John Newlove: Moving in Alone
* Robert Kroetsch: But We Are Exiles
* Farley Mowat: West Viking
* Gilles Archambault: La vie à trois
* Hubert Aquin: Prochain épisode

### Awards

* Gordon R. Dickson's Soldier, Ask Not wins a Hugo Award
* See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
* Stephen Leacock Award: Gregory Clark, War Stories
* Vicky Metcalf Award: Roderick Haig-Brown

### Music

* Karel Ančerl replaces Seiji Ozawa as artistic director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

### Film

* October 13 – The Canadian Film Development Agency is formed
* Christopher Plummer stars as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music
* William Shatner stars in Incubus

## Sport

* March 13 – The Manitoba Bisons win their first University Cup by defeating the St. Dunstan's Saints 9 to 2. The final game was played the Winnipeg Arena
* May 1 – The Montreal Canadiens win their thirteenth Stanley Cup by defeating the Chicago Black Hawks 4 games to 3. The deciding Game 7 was played at the Montreal Forum. Trois-Rivières, Quebec's Jean Beliveau is awarded the First Conn Smythe Trophy as the 1965 Playoffs MVP
* September 10 – Future Baseball Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins plays his first major league game for the Philadelphia Phillies in Connie Mack Stadium
* May 11 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Niagara Falls Flyers win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Central Alberta Hockey League's Edmonton Oil Kings 4 games to 0. All games were played at Edmonton Gardens
* November 20 – The Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Alberta Golden Bears 14–7 in the 1st Vanier Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto
* November 27 – The Hamilton Tiger-Cats win their 4th Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 22–16 in the 53rd Grey Cup in Toronto's CNE Stadium.

## Births
### January to March

* January 8
** Wendy Fuller, diver
** Eric Wohlberg, racing cyclist
* January 21 – Brian Bradley, ice hockey player
* January 23 – Tim Berrett, race walker
* January 27 – Ross MacDonald, sailor and Olympic silver medallist
* January 28
** Stéphane Bergeron, politician
** Lynda Boyd, actress
** Tom Ponting, swimmer and double Olympic silver medallist
* January 31 – Ofra Harnoy, cellist
* March 1 – Stewart Elliott, jockey
* March 7 - Alison Redford, lawyer and politician, 14th premier of Alberta
* March 15 – Marcel Gery, swimmer and Olympic bronze medallist
* March 16 – Mark Carney, banker and politician, prime minister of Canada
* March 23 – Daren Puppa, ice hockey player

### April to June

* April 11 – Chris Pridham, tennis player
* April 21 – Ed Belfour, ice hockey player
* April 22 – Peter Zezel, ice hockey player (d. 2009)
* May 7 – Owen Hart, wrestler (d. 1999)
* May 9 – Steve Yzerman, ice hockey player
* May 10 – Linda Evangelista, supermodel
* May 19 – James Bezan, politician
* June 19 – Gary Vandermeulen, swimmer
* June 25 – Julie Daigneault, swimmer
* June 26 – Gaye Porteous, field hockey player

### July to September

* July 11 – Michael Wayne McGray, serial killer
* July 17 – Ken Evraire, television journalist, host and former professional footballer
* July 26 – Michael Rascher, rower and Olympic gold medallist
* August 4 – James Tupper, actor
* August 11 – Marc Bergevin, ice hockey player
* August 22
** Patricia Hy-Boulais, tennis player
** David Reimer, Canadian man, born male but reassigned female and raised as a girl after a botched circumcision
* August 28 – Shania Twain, singer-songwriter
* September 8 – Mark Andrews, swimmer
* September 9 - Eric Tunney, comedian (Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy) (d. 2010)
* September 27
** Bernard Lord, politician and 30th Premier of New Brunswick
** Peter MacKay, lawyer, politician and Minister

### October to December

* October 1 – Cliff Ronning, ice hockey player
* October 5
** Mario Lemieux, ice hockey player
** Patrick Roy, ice hockey player
* October 23 – David Bédard, diver
* October 29 – Christy Clark, politician and 35th Premier of British Columbia
* November 5 – Andrew Crosby, rower and Olympic gold medallist
* November 13 - Rick Roberts, actor
* November 20 – John Graham, track and field athlete
* November 21 – Jon Kelly, swimmer
* November 24 – Brad Wall, politician and 14th Premier of Saskatchewan
* November 27 – Kathleen Heddle, rower and triple Olympic gold medallist (d. 2021)
* December 1 – Jamie Pagendam, boxer
* December 10 – Jennifer Wyatt, golfer
* December 18 – Brian Walton, road and track cyclist and coach
* December 29 - Manon Perreault, politician

### Full date unknown

* Emanuel Jaques, murder victim (d. 1977)

## Deaths

* January 17 – Austin Claude Taylor, politician (b.1893)
* April 1 – Harry Crerar, General (b.1888)
* June 7 – John Stewart McDiarmid, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1882)
* July 19 - Franklin D. McDowell, author
* August 23 – George Black, politician (b.1873)
* August 28 – Jacob Penner, politician (b.1880)
* September 2 — Pat Harrington Sr., actor (b. 1901)
* September 10 – S. E. Rogers, politician (b.1888)
* September 20 - Madge Macbeth, author (b.1878 in the United States)
* October 8 - Thomas B. Costain, historian (b.1885)
* November 25 - Gwethalyn Graham, author (b.1913)